African linguistics on the prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Jason Kandybowicz (ed), Travis Major (ed), Harold Torrence (ed), Philip T. Duncan (ed)

Synopsis

African Linguistics on the Prairie features select revised peer-reviewed papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, held at the University of Kansas. The articles in this volume reflect the enormous diversity of African languages, as they focus on languages from all of the major African language phyla.  The articles here also reflect the many different research perspectives that frame the work of linguists in the Association for Contemporary African Linguistics. The diversity of views presented in this volume are thus indicative of the vitality of current African linguistics research. The work presented in this volume represents both descriptive and theoretical methodologies and covers fields ranging from phonetics, phonology, morphology, typology, syntax, and semantics to sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, computational linguistics and beyond.  This broad scope and the quality of the articles contained within holds out the promise of continued advancement in linguistic research on African languages.

Chapters

  • Linguistic complexity
    A case study from Swahili
    Kyle Jerro
    Chapter 1
  • Inter-party insults in political discourse in Ghana
    A critical discourse analysis
    Emmanuel Amo Ofori
    Chapter 2
  • Classification of Guébie within Kru
    Hannah Leigh Sande
    Chapter 3
  • What about Southern African story grammar? Promoting language specific macrostructures in educational settings
    Heike Tappe
    Chapter 4
  • How multilingual policies can fail
    Language politics among Ethiopian political parties
    Mehari Zemelak Worku
    Chapter 5
  • Linguistic imperialism and language decolonisation in Africa through documentation and preservation
    Kofi Agyekum
    Chapter 6
  • Dictionary Day
    A community-driven approach to dictionary compilation
    Bryan D. Gelles
    Chapter 7
  • Language endangerment in Southwestern Burkina
    A tale of two Tiefos
    Abbie Hantgan
    Chapter 8
  • Consonant substitution in child language (Ikwere)
    Roseline I.C. Alerechi
    Chapter 9
  • A morphosyntactic analysis of adjectives in two Kwa languages: Ga and Dangme
    Regina Oforiwah Caesar, Yvonne A. A. Ollennu
    Chapter 10
  • Towards a unified theory of morphological productivity in the Bantu languages
    A corpus analysis of nominalization patterns in Swahili
    Nick Kloehn
    Chapter 11
  • The acoustic vowel space of Anyi in light of the cardinal vowel system and the Dispersion Focalization Theory
    Ettien Koffi
    Chapter 12
  • Gender Instability in Maay
    Mary Paster
    Chapter 13
  • Egyptian Arabic broken plurals in DATR
    Lindley Winchester
    Chapter 14
  • Factive Relative Clauses in Pulaar
    Ibrahim Ba
    Chapter 15
  • Object Suffixes as Incorporated Pronouns in Seereer
    Nico Baier
    Chapter 16
  • Searching high and low for focus in Ibibio
    Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major, Mfon Udoinyang
    Chapter 17
  • More on have and need
    Claire Halpert, Michael Diercks
    Chapter 18
  • Structural transfer in third language acquisition
    The case of Lingala-French speakers acquiring English
    Philothé Mwamba Kabsele
    Chapter 19
  • Adjectives in Lubukusu
    Aggrey Wasike
    Chapter 20
  • Optional ergativity and information structure in Beria
    Andrew Wolfe, Tajeldin Abdalla Adam
    Chapter 21
  • Two-place exceed comparatives in Luganda
    M. Ryan Bochnak
    Chapter 22
  • Temporal remoteness and vagueness in past time reference in Luganda
    M. Ryan Bochnak, Peter Klecha
    Chapter 23
  • Focus Marking in Kuria
    Meredith Landman, Rodrigo Ranero
    Chapter 24
  • A corpus study of the Swahili demonstrative position
    Mohamed Mwamzandi
    Chapter 25

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African linguistics on the prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Biographies

Jason Kandybowicz

Jason Kandybowicz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.  He is the author of The Grammar of Repetition: Nupe Grammar at the Syntax–Phonology Interface (John Benjamins), co-editor of Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches (Oxford University Press), as well as the author of a number of articles in various linguistics journals.  His research interests include syntactic theory, the syntax–phonology interface, field linguistics and language documentation, and African linguistics (particularly, the languages of West Africa).

Travis Major

Travis Major is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is interested in syntax, semantics, field linguistics, and language documentation. He conducts research on Lower-Cross languages in Nigeria, as well as Turkic languages.

Harold Torrence

Harold Torrence is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is the author of The Clause Structure of Wolof: Insights into the Left Periphery (John Benjamins), co-editor of Africa’s Endangered Languages: Documentary and Theoretical Approaches (Oxford University Press), and the author of several descriptive and theoretical articles in various linguistics journals.  His areas of research include syntactic theory, morphology, field linguistics, language documentation, African linguistics (the languages of West Africa, in particular), and Meso-American linguistics.

Philip T. Duncan

Phil Duncan is a Lecturer at the University of Kansas, where he teaches courses on syntax, typology, linguistic anthropology, language revitalization, and general linguistics. His research focuses on syntax and its interfaces with semantics and morphology. His most recent work is on Meꞌphaa, an Otomanguean language from Guerrero, Mexico, and Ibibio, a Niger-Congo language from southeastern Nigeria.

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June 14, 2018
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Contemporary African Linguistics

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Kandybowicz, Jason, Major, Travis, Torrence, Harold & Duncan, Philip T. (eds.). 2018. African linguistics on the prairie: Selected papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. (Contemporary African Linguistics 3). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1219141
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